Aaly Tokombaev

Who was Aaly Tokombaev?

Aaly Tokombaev was born on November 7, 1904, in Kyrgyzstan in the village of Chon-Kemin, which is known as Kemin Raion. Tokombaev was a poet, composer, and a famous novelist who greatly influenced the Kyrgyz nation. In 1927 he graduated from the Middle Asian Community University, in Tashkent. After graduation he fully devoted himself to Soviet Kyrgyz literature.

In the following years of 1927 through 1940 he began to write a collection of poems. Tokombaev wrote the poetry collections on Lenin, Flowers of Labor, and Early Poems and the novellas The Empties Into the Deep Sea and the Wounded Heart. Throughout the Great Patriotic War he wrote patriotic and narrative poems through which he reflected his opinions, ideas, and beliefs.

During the time when he lived Kyrgyzstan was struggling with tsarism and Soviet rule. He started to write novels such as Before the Dawn Part 1; Bloody Years; Before the Dawn Part 2. Through those books he told his opinions on the unfair rule and treatment of the Kyrgyz people.

He died in the year of 1988.